{"id":2733,"date":"2011-10-07T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2011-10-07T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T19:58:07","slug":"boy-scouts-puppets-and-movies-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"Boy Scouts, Puppets, and Movies. Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=2734\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2734\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2734\" title=\"gruber\" src=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gruber-250x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gruber-250x196.png 250w, https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gruber.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Ever since I was a child I have enjoyed puppets. One year for Christmas my parents gave me a Howdy Doody ventriloquist doll. I was a big fan of the Muppet Show. I enjoy watching Jeff Dunham and his pals.<\/p>\n<p>During the last few years I have made several videos featuring a puppet call Buttons, the radical Boy Scout. Buttons has talked about the Scout Oath, the Scout Law, and being physically fit. He also loves a good joke or two. While there are over a dozen videos featuring Buttons, he is not the first puppet to star in a video of mine.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1980&#8217;s, I was taping courts of honor and troop activities for Mel-TV, our local cable access television station. Some of the Boy Scouts would act in a few of the original short films I created. One of those movies was <em>The Puppets Must Di<\/em>e, which involved puppets coming to life to kill people. It was like a Twilight Zone episode. Two Boy Scouts played the main roles in the film. The climax was to be a battle between the good puppet and the evil puppet.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we were only able to film the first half of the movie before we ran out of time and life got in the way. Only one puppet&#8217;s scenes were filmed. A third Boy Scout acted as our puppeteer. I thought he did an excellent job of bringing Gruber to life.\u00a0Some of tricks we learned while filming <em>The Puppets Must Di<\/em>e were later used during the videos featuring Buttons twenty years later.<\/p>\n<p>I recently posted The Puppets Must Die to our troop&#8217;s website. If you would like to view our first experiment in puppet entertainment check out\u00a0<a title=\"The Puppets Must Die\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/videopuppets.html\">http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/videopuppets.html<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but there are no plans to finish this film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a child I have enjoyed puppets. One year for Christmas my parents gave me a Howdy Doody ventriloquist doll. I was a big fan of the Muppet Show. I enjoy watching Jeff Dunham and his pals. During the last few years I have made several videos featuring a puppet call Buttons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[269,19],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia","tag-puppets","tag-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2736,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}